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sensory |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sensory \Sen"so*ry\, a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sensory adj 1: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: {centripetal}, {receptive}, {sensory(a)}] 2: involving or derived from the senses "sensory experience"; "sensory channels" [syn: {sensorial}] [ant: {extrasensory}] 3: relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs" [syn: {sensational}]
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